Paige West, Dan Brockington (University of Manchester UK)
Environment and society
Volume 1 2010
The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large. This growth reflects the urgency of debate and the pace and scale of change with respect to the water crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the looming energy crisis, nascent resource wars, environmental refugees, climate change, and environmental justice, which are just some of the many compelling challenges facing society today and in the future. It also...
Environment and society
Volume 1 2010
The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importa...
Paige West, Dan Brockington (University of Manchester UK)
Environment and society
Volume 2 2011
The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large. This growth reflects the urgency of debate and the pace and scale of change with respect to the water crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the looming energy crisis, nascent resource wars, environmental refugees, climate change, and environmental justice, which are just some of the many compelling challenges facing society today and in the future. It also...
Environment and society
Volume 2 2011
The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importa...
Paige West, Dan Brockington (University of Manchester UK)
The concept of the animal has long offered the ultimate Other against which to define the boundaries of the human. However, this binary is just one of the many ways humans and animals shape one another's existences and experiences of the world. Today, human-animal scholars are tasked with describing a world in which humans do not automatically take precedence over other beings. Whether ethnographic, ecological, or philosophical, the topics addressed in this volume bring into focus a web of relations transversing species lines in conversations across the disciplines. Both constructively and...
The concept of the animal has long offered the ultimate Other against which to define the boundaries of the human. However, this binary is just one of...
